Readers give me hell for not providing a link. This is another case. I am going to comment on Ministry of Transportation of Ontario uniforms.
According to the source, which I can't remember at the moment, the Ontario government gave the contract to a Chinese clothing manufacturer. This isn't a knock against the Chinese. Good on them if they can give good bidding. But in the last six months the economy went to hell. A lot of Canadian workers are also out of work. The optics are bad for the Canadian governments.
I am not as upset about this awarding of a clothing contract. Even Roots moved its manufracturing out of Canada. It was supposed to be an All Canadian company. So having the MTO uniforms produced in another country doesn't really bother me.
ON the other hand, the making of a flag in another country though is terrible spin, PR, appearance, or whatever. The opposition parties are making a fuss about buying Canadian. I can recall the panic when the US President was recommending that Americans should buy American. Canadians went into a tizzy for the completely opposite reasons. Sounds just a little hypocritical to knock the Chinese for being competitive. Canadian steelmakers are competitive. Why should they be punished?
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